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Reception Arranged to Mark PRC Anniversary

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, October 1 (KCNA) -- The Korean Committee for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries (KCCRFC) and the Central Committee of the DPRK-China Friendship Association arranged a reception at the People's Palace of Culture on Thursday evening on the occasion of the 55th founding anniversary of the People's Republic of China (PRC). Present there were Yang Hyong Sop, vice-president of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, and other officials concerned.
    Mun Jae Chol, acting chairman of the KCCRFC, in his speech at the reception said that the foundation of the PRC was the brilliant fruition of the victory won in the people's revolution through a protracted and arduous struggle under the leadership of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and a historic event which brought about an epochal change in the Chinese revolution and political life of its people.
    Today the Chinese people are making vigorous endeavours to attain the strategic goal to build a comprehensively well-off society according to the decision of the 16th Congress of the CPC, he said, and went on:
    The DPRK-China friendship which was provided and brought into bloom by President Kim Il Sung and the leaders of the elder generation of China is now steadily developing favorably under the deep care of leader Kim Jong Il and the new collective leadership of China headed by respected Hu Jintao.
    The DPRK-China friendly and cooperative relations will steadily expand and develop as ever in the spirit agreed upon at the meeting and talks between the supreme leaders of the two countries.
    Wu Donghe, Chinese ambassador e.p. to the DPRK, said in his speech that since the foundation of the PRC the Chinese people have achieved shining successes in different fields through strong unity and fortitude under the leadership of the CPC over the past 55 years.
    The significant celebration of the 56th anniversary of the founding of the DPRK proved once again that the Korean army and people are united close around the Workers' Party of Korea headed by General Secretary Kim Jong Il, he noted.
    He wished the Korean people success in building a great prosperous powerful socialist nation and the efforts to achieve the country's reunification.
    He went on to say: The Sino-DPRK friendship which was provided and brought into bloom by the revolutionaries of the elder generation of China and the DPRK is now continuing to develop favorably under the deep care of the leaders of the two countries.
    Kim Jong Il's visit to China in April and the Korea visit by the Chinese party and government delegation are of great importance in steadily strengthening and developing the Sino-DPRK friendly and cooperative relations.
    He expressed the belief that the great Sino-DPRK friendship would become more beautiful in the new century under the deep care of the top leaders of the two countries.